Responding to questions before the National Assembly, the Minister of Information and Communications said: "Talking about medicine and functional foods, what is right and what is wrong, whether advertising is right or wrong, is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health ."
On the afternoon of November 7, delegate Tao Van Giot ( Lai Chau delegation - Photo above ) questioned the Minister of Information and Communications about solutions to handle the advertising of unverified health protection foods. The delegate said that recently, there has been a situation where social networking sites such as Zalo, Facebook, Tiktok, Youtube or websites with servers abroad have advertised unverified health protection foods, with advertising content that is not true to the content.
In fact, advertising food as medicine using the names of agencies such as health, cutting and pasting images of VTV, the Ministry of Health and hospitals; providing feedback from patients and celebrities to advertise food with disease treatment effects is still quite common and complicated, causing confusion and damage to consumers, especially people in rural areas, ethnic minority areas, and areas with little information.
Delegates from Lai Chau asked the Minister to provide solutions to handle this issue fundamentally and long-term in accordance with the spirit of Resolution 75 of 2022, 4th session, 15th National Assembly?
Delegate Tao Van Giot (National Assembly Delegation of Lai Chau Province) questioned the solution to handle the advertising of unverified health protection foods.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung. Photo VOV
Responding to questions, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that regarding the issue of false advertising of functional foods and drugs in cyberspace, these advertisements are basically carried out on social networks. Therefore, the authorities have reached a working mechanism with these social networks to remove false information, false advertising, and toxic information. This issue has been institutionalized in legal documents, including the responsibility of social networks and the time for removal.
According to the Minister, currently, the implementation of State management requirements on removing false information on social networks, including social networks, is being carried out very seriously.
“The problem is to detect and report to resolve. Whichever ministry or locality manages something must move to cyberspace and carry out management of that field on cyberspace. If implementation is difficult, there will be support from two core ministries, the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Public Security. But the main task must still be the specialized ministries. Talking about drugs and functional foods, which is right, which is wrong, whether the advertising is right or wrong, is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health,” said Minister Nguyen Manh Hung.
The Minister believes that currently, ministries, branches, and localities “have not been on cyberspace much” and consider this the sole responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communications or the Ministry of Public Security: “I think that this perception needs to be changed. I really hope that we will define the responsibilities of our ministries, branches, and localities in the real world and then go on cyberspace in the same way. In the process of removing bad, toxic, and untrue information, if you encounter any difficulties, please send an official dispatch to the Ministry of Information and Communications, we are ready to support.”
According to Le Hoang/VOV.VN
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